Investment decisions today are primarily based on the investor’s appetite for risk, mixed with a bit of research or advice and, hopefully, a positive gut feeling. After all, the whole point of investing in equity, and now also cryptocurrencies, is that they can be liquidated, sooner or later, for a profit. Today, investing like this is typically seen as a more productive way of saving or “growing” your wealth over a long period of time. But this was not always the case.
In the old days, or even still in more traditional settings, people would approach the idea of savings by putting extra money aside each month in a bank account, or under the bed, for bad times and rainy days. Investing in the stock market was typically something that was perhaps only a small part of one’s savings, if at all, but never the majority of it. Savings has long been predominantly cash-based, or in the form of precious metals like gold.
Today, however, having cash means to be constantly losing money. I
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